Three years ago I took pollen from the floriferous rose 'Astrid Lindgren' or 'Dream Sequence' as it is also called. This rose was bred in 1991 by Poulsen; it's a modern shrub rose which performs extremely well in my garden. Never sick and always blooming!

From this crossing I got two very different roses. The first one is 'Elinor', named for my darling daughter. The colour of the petals is soft pink with a darker back side. The eye of the rose is light yellow. A suitful rose for my beautiful girl who starts university tomorrow!

This year I'm waiting for one very special rose hip to ripen. It's a cross between 'Sally Holmes' and 'Clytemnestra' - two musk hybrids. I really hope I will get at least two more beautiful roses during my life time, since I've got two more beloved sons...

The tiny Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallace' blooms throughout the entire summer. Its lilac flowers blend well with most other plants and add extra beauty. It spreads easily with seeds, but I don't mind that at all! The plants that i don't want are easily removed.

Clematis macropetala 'Georg' has such a pretty, star-like flowers. High above me, in the trellis, they seem to fly like small butterflies. It's a very nice clematis since it blooms from early spring till late autumn.

Do you remember my meadow which I'm trying to turn into a flowery meadow? It hasn't got very many wild flowers yet (but I've spread lots of seeds, so hopefully next year...) - Instead there's lots of wild Heather. It's so beautiful!

The first three pictures of today's posting is a wonderful rugosa-hybrid called 'Kamschatka'. It was bred in 1988 by a German amateur called Sievers, and I think he did a marvellous job!The pink, romantic roses change into almost white with some flushes of pink.

The Canadian rose 'Martin Frobisher' continues to bloom abundantly The shrub grows tall with strong and straight branches. Despite the fact that it's a rugosa-hybrid it normally doesn't produce any rose hips.

Stanwell Perpetual! What a treasure! It keeps blooming and blooming throughout the summer. And you have to admit that the roses are very beautiful? This is the only remontant pimpinellifolia;the others bloom in early springand only occationallly produce odd flowers durng autumn.

Among all the romantic pinks, I found a gorgeous blue flower this afternoon. A Salvia. I planted a blue Salvia last summer but it didn't survive the winter. Or so I thought....Luckily, it's back and I must admit that the colour blue is even more beautiful than the colour pink. Do you agree?

In March, 2006, I bought a small Magnolia x soulangeana when I visited England. I could not make up my mind as to the best position for this tree, so I moved it around - twice.... This spring, the foliage was yellow and the tree wasn't feeling too good. It only produced one tiny flower.

Thank you Anja för your good advice! And thanks to all you bloggers around the world for writing comments on my blog! It pleases me so much that you take the time to comment. I got an award from Marie at Heimdal the other day - I'm passing it on to each and everyone of you!

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Another plant with delicate flowers is Clematis Stans. The tiny, blue, bellshaped flowers are absolutely gorgeous - but you have to be very close and study them in detail to really notice their beauty!

Having walked past out house, stairs No 1 takes us up to the second level, which consists of a small lawn and some borders with roses and hardy geraniums to the left and some black currants and blueberry shrubs to the right. This is also where the play house is situated.

As you can see it's not very exciting - mostly grass and heather...and Lilies of the Valley during Spring of course. - My dream is to turn this spot into a flowery meadow... Therefore, during the week-end, I moved several plants of Blue Bells (Campanula persicifolia) and Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) here, and I also spread several handfuls of seeds. Hopefully by next year, this spot will be crammed with flowers... Is it a realistic dream or a fantasy? What do you think?